Grid - Defaults for New Drawings

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Grid - Defaults for New Drawings

Post by Clive » Wed Mar 12, 2014 10:17 am

After all this time using QCAD, I have only just really looked at this .. and I don't seem to be able to get it working or understand it correctly.
What does it do and how do I set it up?
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Re: Grid - Defaults for New Drawings

Post by Clive » Wed Mar 12, 2014 3:39 pm

Okay, I have worked it out. The View 1, View 2, View 3 and View 4 was confusing me. I think it should read New Drawing 1, New drawing 2 and so on...
Basically this dialog is supposed to give you options to display the grid and to display it in isometric mode if you want. It gives you 4 'new default grid' pages to set up.

However after my testing it doesn't work properly (unless I'm totally misunderstanding something here). If I set the grid to display in all the options and choose the isometric mode in all the options then no problem ... I get what I ask for.

But:

1. Set the grid to display in all 4 new drawings, but isometric in 'View 1' only - I get the isometric grid in every new drawing I create.

2. Set the grid to Display in all views (new drawings) but in View 1 do not set the grid for isometric, but instead set the isometric grid mode for all or any (it doesn't seem to matter), then I don't get any isometric grids at all :cry: .

Some might read this and think, why is he using the grid at all anyway - well I use the grid quite a lot and this is how I like it.
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Re: Grid - Defaults for New Drawings

Post by andrew » Wed Mar 12, 2014 4:03 pm

clive wrote:Okay, I have worked it out. The View 1, View 2, View 3 and View 4 was confusing me. I think it should read New Drawing 1, New drawing 2 and so on...
The four views correspond to the views as set up in Layout - Viewports.
If you have configured only one viewport as default for new drawings, only the grid settings for view 1 apply.

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Re: Grid - Defaults for New Drawings

Post by Clive » Wed Mar 12, 2014 4:12 pm

andrew wrote:The four views correspond to the views as set up in Layout - Viewports.
If you have configured only one viewport as default for new drawings, only the grid settings for view 1 apply.
Yes, at last I understand (its an age thing, my excuse :lol: ). Thanks so much.

I think it might have saved me some time to figure it out by calling them - Viewport 1, Viewport 2 etc..?
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Re: Grid - Defaults for New Drawings

Post by andrew » Wed Mar 12, 2014 4:23 pm

clive wrote:I think it might have saved me some time to figure it out by calling them - Viewport 1, Viewport 2 etc..?
Agreed. I've adjusted that accordingly, thanks.

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Re: Grid - Defaults for New Drawings

Post by Clive » Wed Mar 12, 2014 4:36 pm

andrew wrote:Agreed. I've adjusted that accordingly, thanks.
Great, thank you very much andrew.

As a side note, for your attention, when I set a couple of viewport options and then reverted back again to a single viewport I get extra 'floating' dialogs afterwards, is this a bug or is QCAD trying to give me more for my effort :wink: .
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Re: Grid - Defaults for New Drawings

Post by andrew » Fri Mar 14, 2014 9:54 am

This looks like a bug, yes.

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